EFA – Forum 2010 will discuss how we, based on recent research should expand and improve comprehensive Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.

Time and place:Children as Experts in their Own Lives: Child Inclusive Research
Nov. 3, 2009,
University of Western Sydney, Australia

The Social Justice Social Change Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney is organizing the Symposium Children as experts in their own lives: Child Inclusive Research, preceeding the 2nd ISCI international indicators conference. Plans for this symposium include hearing from children and from adult policymakers and academics on the topic of child research, in plenary and panel sessions and in contributed papers.

Time and place:Impact of Poverty and Social Exclusion on Children’s Lives and their Well-being and Childwatch International Regional Network Meeting of Central Eastern European Countries
Sep. 8, 2008 -
Sep. 9, 2008,
Institute for Labour and Family Research, Bratislava

The workshop was a follow-up event of the international workshop “Children’s Experiences with Poverty and Social Exclusion – Challenges for Research and Policies”, which was held in Vienna in June 2007. Its aims were to strengthen the established platform for theoretical-methodological discussions concerning child poverty and social exclusion of children.

Time and place:Rethinking Poverty and Children in the New Millennium: Linking Research and Policy
Sep. 17, 2007 -
Sep. 19, 2007,
University of Oslo, Norway

Childwatch International Research Network and Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) organized a joint research workshop and an open seminar on the challenges of child poverty. The workshop and seminar focused on policy making to eradicate child poverty as well as studying the effects of child poverty on children, their families, communities and the societies they live in.

Time and place:Children's Rights in Practice: Tools for Social Change (Training Workshop)
Feb. 25, 2007 -
Mar. 2, 2007,
The International Institute for Child Rights and Development, University of Victoria, Canada.

In honour of International Children’s Day, November 20th, IICRD hosted a week long interactive conference on Children’s Rights in Practice. Topics addressed in plenary and workshop formats by presenters and keynote speakers included the social ecology of children’s rights. Please visit the website at www.iicrd.org or email intiicrd [at] uvic.ca for further information.

Childwatch International Norway,together with the Norwegian Research Council, organized a workshop on Children as Citizens, presenting two current Norwegian research projects on issues concerning children's rights in relation to the incorporation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Norwegian legislation. The workshop took place at the Norwegian Research Council, Monday 21 November 2005.